Raymond Briggs has just won our Lifetime Achievement Award 2017 - and with very good reason.If you only know a couple of Raymond Briggs' works, you're in for a treat... a b c "Raymond Briggs's Christmas Little Library – Raymond Briggs; | Foyles Bookstore". www.foyles.co.uk . Retrieved 11 August 2022. Nicolette Jones, Raymond Briggs: Blooming Books (Jonathan Cape, 2003). Extracts from the published works of Briggs with text commentary by Jones. Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - Lawson, Mark (14 December 2012). "The Snowman and the Snowdog: the pitfalls of remakes". The Guardian . Retrieved 10 August 2022.

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After briefly pursuing painting, he became a professional illustrator, [1] and soon began working in children's books. In 1958, he illustrated Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales, a fairy tale anthology by Ruth Manning-Sanders that was published by Oxford University Press. They would collaborate again for the Hamish Hamilton Book of Magical Beasts ( Hamilton, 1966). In 1961, Briggs began teaching illustration part-time at Brighton School of Art, which he continued until 1986; [14] [15] one of his students was Chris Riddell, who went on to win three Greenaway Medals. [16] Briggs was a commended runner-up for the 1964 Kate Greenaway Medal ( Fee Fi Fo Fum, a collection of nursery rhymes) [17] [a] and won the 1966 Medal for illustrating a Hamilton edition of Mother Goose. [1] According to a retrospective presentation by the librarians, The Mother Goose Treasury "is a collection of 408 traditional and well loved poems and nursery rhymes, illustrated with over 800 colour pictures by a young Raymond Briggs". [3] Briggs's wife Jean, who had schizophrenia, died from leukaemia in 1973, two years after his parents' death. They did not have any children. [28]

Briggs died of pneumonia at Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton on 9 August 2022, aged 88. [1] [13] Awards and honours [ edit ]

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Wroe, Nicholas (18 December 2004). "Bloomin' Christmas". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 22 May 2010. The Bear is a 1998 British animated Christmas special directed by Hilary Audus. Based on the book of the same name by the author Raymond Briggs, the film was first broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom at Christmas 1998 and released in the United States as a Direct-to-Video release by Buena Vista Home Video in 1998. [1] Discussing the impact of Raymond Briggs’ work, Judge Shami Chakrabarti said: "Raymond is a true artistic genius who has touched the hearts of millions of children of all ages. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words and his particular style of illustration is unmistakable as are his understated and poignant words of narrative and dialogue. His talent expresses his values and with his choice and treatment of subjects he brings our history and contemporary challenges to life."Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Impression, number string complete to 1. No previous owner name or marks. From the creator of The Snowman, Father Christmas and Fungus the Bogeyman - now a live theatre show! Read more Details